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- Daichi Kashino
- Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-strasse 27, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Akio K Inoue
- Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Design Technology, Osaka Sangyo University, 3-1-1, Nakagaito, Daito, Osaka 574-8530, Japan
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We present an analysis to disentangle the connection between physical quantities that characterize the conditions of ionized H ii regions – metallicity (Z), ionization parameter (U), and electron density (ne) – and the global stellar mass (M*) and specific star formation rate (sSFR = SFR/M*) of the host galaxies. We construct composite spectra of galaxies at 0.027 ≤ z ≤ 0.25 from Sloan Digital Sky Survey, separating the sample into bins of M* and sSFR, and estimate the nebular conditions from the emission-line flux ratios. Specially, metallicity is estimated from the direct method based on the faint auroral lines [O iii]λ4363 and [O ii]λλ7320,7330. The derived metallicities cover a range of 12 + log O/H ∼ 7.6–8.9. It is found that the three nebular parameters, Z, U, and ne, are tightly correlated with the location in the M*–sSFR plane. With simple physically motivated ansätze, we derive scaling relations between these physical quantities by performing multiregression analysis. In particular, we find that U is primarily controlled by sSFR, as U∝sSFR0.43, but also depends significantly on both Z and ne. The derived partial dependence of U∝Z−0.36 is weaker than the apparent correlation (U∝Z−1.52). The partial dependence of U on ne is found to be $U \propto n_\mathrm{e}^{-0.29}$. The scaling relations we derived are in agreement with predictions from theoretical models and observations of each aspect of the link between these quantities. Our results provide a useful set of equations to predict the nebular conditions and emission-line fluxes of galaxies in semi-analytic models.</jats:p>
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 486 (1), 1053-1069, 2019-03-28
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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- CRID
- 1360005519599326720
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- ISSN
- 13652966
- 00358711
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